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What's your anxiety around specifically?

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It's not so much that so many people are ok with it as much as people have other concerns.

Sure, Trump lies, cheats, steals. I don't think any reasonable person contests that. The thing is, the entire wealthy class of people does that. It's how they get/stay wealthy. So realistically why is Trump different to the point where I should be changing aspects of my life to respond to it?

People's politics are motivated by a combination of their core values intersecting with their most immediate needs. For a lot of people, their politics is shortsighted because their needs are immediate.

If you have one politician who's telling you "Just hang on for seven years, I have a plan, it's great, everybody's wages will double, taxes will halve, and it'll be awesome" versus one telling you "I can cut your taxes in half right now" which one are you more inclined to vote for?

Sure the first one is interesting but rent is due next month and you're barely making it and you just had a tooth crack.

Politicians aren't stupid. They know if they can appeal to your immediate needs they can get away with a lot in the long term.

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That would be helped by acquainting yourself with the just-world hypothesis. Basically it's the belief that the world is somehow inherently fair in some way and when that fairness is violated there is some kind of recompense that happens to balance the scales.

People who (often subconsciously) invest in that idea can have feelings of distress or agitation when they see something they interpret as unfair because that universal idea of fairness is being violated.

I'm not trying to say there's something wrong with you, but a lot of the feelings of exhaustion and frustration that you're describing sound like they're coming from that just-world perspective.

It might help to work to understand that the world isn't inherently bound by a universal sense of fairness and, more often than not, is wildly unfair and unjust often for reasons that we find repulsive.

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